State v. Cole

Christy Weatherford Cole (“Defendant”) appeals her bench-trial convictions for first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree murder based upon the perpetration of a felony (“felony murder”) related to the April 2003 killing of her three-year-old son (“Child”) by her “male friend,” Mike Griffin (“Griffin”).1 *320See sections 568.045 and 565.021. In two points relied on, Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting each of her convictions, and she also asserts that we should be able to re-weigh the evidence when making our sufficiency determinations. Finding…